More information to fill the lists for cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012. And while the priciest version of the franchise, in CSI: Miami got cancelled, the original one, and longest running CSI Crime Scene Investigation got renewed for season thirteen. Continue reading
There are more articles to fill the cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012 lists I´m doing, and this week was probably the busiest of all in the renewal front in a long time, with all coming from CBS that renewed almost every show they have, making them come back next season. I am reviewing one by one, the fourteen that hadn´t been already announced as renewed previously.CBS renews CSI for a thirteenth season. This show has been so long with us, that it talks about its stability more than anything, and the health of a good procedural in fron of viewers. Good pickup CSI getting renewed by CBS. Continue reading
So, CSI is an iconic show. The original of a very successful franchise. Yesterday, an all new episode of CSI aired, this one called All In. If you want to read spoilers of CSI, stay in this post under your responsibility.
Remember CSI is renewed for a tenth season
It’s night in Vegas and we get a shot of happy people gambling in a casino with a Rat Pack soundtrack.
We cut to a waitress in a diner opening up shop
We cut to a guy sleeping in a car for sale being awakened by a friend.
Back to the casino and one dude playing slots and ignoring his phone.
Then a shot of the two guys riding in the back of a truck and then jackhammering a lot.
Back to slots guy and the happy gamblers beyond him, including a cowboy giving his lady a chip.
Then back to the diner waitress mad about a quarter tip.
Cut to the slots guy on a gurney, his face all messed up being rushed into the ER. He was working the landscaping gig and he was all messed up by using the wrong equipment, he looks like he’s riddled with nails. Langston is working the ER for some reason.
We cut to Catherine at a scene where a man was shot in the back of the head. Langston thinks execution and body dump at the side of the road and that the vic was the driver. Perhaps a hitchiking gone bad?
Riley and Hodges examine the body and clothes respectively. He’s covered in concrete dust so they’re guessing construction worker.
Back out at the scene Langston and Sanders are examining shoe impressions, so they’re guessing there were three people in the car. They recreate the shooting from the strides of the impressions: sneakers and boots, one who got back in the car and the other who ran off into the night.
Nick bids farewell he’s headed to an entomology conference in Hawaii saying they need a new bug man. He asks Langston to hold down the fort.
Langston is checking his mail when he sees a box from a Gloria Parkes. The note says she was cleaning a closet and found it and thought he would want it. Inside are some old mementoes: and “I Like Button,” an old lighter, a photo, a war metal, presumably his dad’s stuff based on the age of the stuff.
Robbins is showing Catherine the jacket of the bullet from the victim’s head. He seems weird to her, he says things are tough all over.
Riley arrives to announce that the victim’s name is Houston Dobbs, a missing person from Elba whose car had been torched.
Dobbs was working at the diner with our waitress. Turns out she’s the owner too and used him as a fry cook. Brass breaks the news. She yells at a waiter named Walter who’s eavesdropping. She wonders who would want to shoot Dobbs. A guy at the counter gives Brass the name of another worker he needs to talk to, Bruno Curtis. Another chimes in that the owner, Barbie, and Bruno were an item in high school. Yet another customer, a woman, says he was looking for unskilled labor work “up north.” The owner says working the diner isn’t enough to live on.
Turns out that, thanks to the rain, Dobbs’ car wasn’t totally destroyed so Riley, Wendy, and Hodges examine it for evidence. They realize the guy was living in his car. Wendy finds a piece of skull. The keychain is a chip from an old casino run by a Playboy-magnate type. Riley finds blood and a bullet in the back seat. They find a handgun belt buckle, which conceals a real .22, with a print on it.
The print belongs to a Wiley Schindler, the cowboy from the opening sequence. He’s a collectibles dealer and according to his website he’s in town.
We cut to Schindler trying to sell some Bugsy Siegel-related merchandise. Brass and Langston arrive and scare off his customer. They show him pictures of the victim and Bruno. He met them briefly at Barbie’s diner a few days previously. (We see this.) He noticed Barbie’s earrings were made of the same old casino chips and Bruno and Houston tried to make a deal to sell the stash of chips they had to Schindler for $300. He talks them to $200.
Brass informs him that Dobbs is dead and Bruno is missing and posits the theory that Schindler killed them based on the finding of his concealed weapon belt buckle at the scene. He claims they admired it and he gave it to them to seal the deal. (Plus there’s that set of shoeprints: sneakers and cowboy boots like he’s wearing.) Brass arrests him.
Sanders is explaining to Catherine the story of the owner of the defunct casino, Hux, a porn-pusher who pulled out in the ’80s after a fight with his partners. (We see a Hef-style dude flipping chips to scantily clad chicks done up in ’80s gear). They remodeled but without Hux and his “kittens” the casino went bust. According to the gaming commission the chips were destroyed. Which is why any remaining chips are so valuable. Langston enters with a box full of the chips they recovered from Schindler’s room.
We cut to Brass interrogating an angry Schindler who says he explained how he got the very valuable chips. Brass posits the theory that Schindler, Bruno, and Dobbs cooked up a counterfeit chip scheme that went bad ending with Dobbs’ death. Schindler says all his stuff is real and the murder theory is crazy. He points out he has no lawyer because he didn’t kill or cheat anybody.
Hodges examines a set of the chips. He says they’re authentic. Catherine, Riley, Hodges, Langston wonder where they found them, why who kept ‘em, kept ‘em, and if Bruno and Dobbs really sold them to Schindler on the cheap why he would kill them? There’s still no sign of Bruno. As they figure out a way to track him down – possibly through construction sites in Elba since they were picking up work- Hodges has an epiphany about a button company, the one that made the chips. It was in Elba. (Dobbs’ coat was covered in vintage pins, the kind the button company made).
Langston and Riley go to the abandoned factory to look for him and maybe the genesis of the chips? There is evidence that someone has been living there. They find evidence of a wounded person. A man breaks out and runs, they give chase outside. They find him under a tarp with a gun and an infected wound. Ray notices a cache of chips under the tarp, where we saw them jackhammering earlier.
Hodges and Sanders explain to Catherine that when the casino went bust the chips were sent back to the button company for destruction. But because of how they were made they were hard to destroy so they were buried instead. 107,000 plus chips. We see this, then Bruno and Dobbs finding it.
At the hospital Bruno is not talkative. Riley yells at Langston for helping Bruno while he was armed. Langston goes to speak to him and lays out the evidence against him for accessory to murder. Bruno’s leg has been amputated. He is, understandably, sad. Langston asks for the truth. Bruno begins to cry and confesses that he wishes they never had pulled the chips out.
We see his story as he tells it: He and Dobbs were hired to bust up the parking lot at the factory. They found the chips and started collecting. They thought they might be worthless – since they’d been dumped- but kept them as souvenirs and to give as gifts. We see him give them to Barbie as earrings. They met Schindler and made the buck a piece deal and after that thought they’d be rich since they’d pulled out thousands. They went back to the parking lot and discovered the barrels were empty, that Schindler had stolen them. They called him up claiming they had more chips to sell. They met him Vegas and demanded their chips back. Schindler denied it all and so they “took him for a ride.” We see the ride, Bruno with a gun to Schindler in the backseat, Schindler going for his belt buckle and shooting Bruno in the leg, and then grabbing Bruno’s gun and shooting Dobbs, who was driving. Bruno is sad about his best friend. (We don’t actually see who shoots Dobbs though and I’m guessing Bruno did, chain-reaction style after getting shot in the leg.)
Mandy dusts a gun. Riley does a ballistics test. The gun is the murder weapon but Schindler’s prints aren’t on it, so it only implicates Bruno. Schindler is released. Langston and Catherine watch him on the news. Catherine tries to bring up Riley’s concerns about Langston, Langston says Riley is trigger-happy.
Eckley enters with a man from the gaming commission. He says since the chips weren’t destroyed properly they still have value and therefore are redeemable. He wants the cops to find the chips- and deem them stolen property and evidence- before anyone else can and cash them in.
Langston calls Brass who reports that Schindler has checked out. Langston is at Barbie’s house and she’s dead.
She was shot less than an hour ago and she’s surrounded by a pile of the chips.
They get a call that Schindler was arrested at the airport weighted down with chips.
Brass asks where he got them. Schindler says he got them from Barbie, and made a fair deal with her. He admits he heard that might still have cash value. He claims when he left she was alive.
Sanders shows Catherine surveillance video of a different man peddling Hux club chips while Schindler was in jail.
Back at Barbie’s Langston finds a voicemail on Barbie’s phone from a man who claims she’s hounding him.
In the background we see a wedding photo of Barbie and Walter, the waiter from earlier. Sanders and Catherine surmise that Schindler was telling the truth: Barbie stole the chips from Houston and Dobbs and then Walter stole them from her. We see a version where they fight over the chips and he shoots her.
Langston enters the garage and sees a bunch of chips in the back seat of a car and a trunk full of them. He finds an e-ticket for a flight for Walter and a wad of money with Schindler’s business card attached. He goes to open the trunk and a shot is fired from inside and Walter hops out guns blazing complaining about what a bitch Barbie was. Langston shoots him. Dead.
We are reviewing all the cancelled shows and renewed shows of the season.
Although CBS hasn´t already renewed CSI for a tenth season. Now, reports say that CBS is going to renew CSI for a new season. So, everything´s good!
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series. CSI premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The ninth season began airing on October 9, 2008 and currently airs in the United States on Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It is filmed primarily at Universal Studios in Universal City, California.
CSI trails the investigations of a team of Las Vegas forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes. For the first eight and a half seasons, the show starred William Petersen as Dr. Gil Grissom, the night shift supervisor who excels in crime scene investigation. In the middle of the ninth season, Petersen left and was replaced by Laurence Fishburne as Dr. Raymond Langston, a former medical doctor who turns criminalist in an attempt to rid himself of past demons.
Reception of the show is generally good, with ratings making it the number one show on the network several times in its history, although it has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of how police investigations are performed and for its often extremely violent depictions of the crime. CSI has been nominated numerous times for industry awards and has won nine awards during its history. The success of the program has led it to be spun off into two additional shows, an exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, a series of books, and several video games. It has reached milestone episodes, such as the 100th, Ch-Ch-Changes, which aired November, 18th 2004 and the 200th, Mascara, airing on April 2, 2009.
The show follows the cases of the Crime Scene Investigation division of the Las Vegas Police Department, usually referred to by officers as the “Las Vegas Crime Lab”. Anthony E. Zuiker chose to set the series in Las Vegas because—as mentioned in the pilot—that city’s crime lab is the second most active in the United States, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia. The division solves crimes almost entirely through forensics evidence, which may or may not come to conclusion of a murder or accidental death. The bizarre conclusions of these cases often force one to question morals, beliefs and human nature in general.
Are you happy that CSI gets renewed for a tenth season by CBS?
So, CSI is an iconic show. The original of a very successful franchise. Yesterday, an all new episode of CSI aired, this one called Hog Heaven. If you want to read spoilers of CSI, stay in this post under your responsibility.
It’s night in Vegas and we hear the roar of motorcycles as they zoom up to a local watering hole. A big dude walks in with his chick and greets other big biker dudes. They have beers. One guy approaches him and offers up a hot chick. The first biker dude declines saying he’s got his own chick and plants one on the one that brung him.
Another big biker dude – they’re all sporting funky chin hair, leather jackets, and macho attitudes – spills a beer on a pool table, pissing off a big biker dude playing pool. They begin to fight and the fight spills over to the original dude and his lady friend, who eggs on the fight.
We cut to people running out of the bar with sirens sounding in the distance. A few folks get away on their bikes but most are stopped in their tracks by the police. Some literally.
Brass is telling Langston that they got an untraceable cell call to 911.
Inside David tells us the body is still superfresh as we see the original biker dude lying in a big pool of blood. Langston takes pictures and reads the biker gang name off the jacket. Brass says since he’s “flying his colors” this means he’s a full-fledged gang member. They flip him over and discover multiple knife wounds. Langston points out it would take a serious blade to cut through a leather jacket like that. The biker’s knife is missing from its sheath. No wallet or ID on the dude and no “eyewitnesses” even though the club was packed.
Hodges and Greg show up to help process the scene. Greg takes blood samples while Hodges heads for the kitchen, a good place to ditch a murder weapon when it’s a knife. Langston goes to look at the bikes, he admires them as he walks down the line. A cop tells him that all the bikes match folks in custody except one that belongs to Joey Niagara, who lists the bar as his address. Langston figures this is the victim.
Hodges works on the knives, finding blood on all, animal on some, human on others. Greg comes in to tell him they need him at PD.
Catherine takes pictures of Niagara on the slab as Robbins works on him. He has a tattoo that reads Tonya. Cahterine tells Robbins about a biker boy she dated in school who she wound up seeing years later in the ER. Robbins says the final stab wound tally is 24 and there are multiple other wounds including a hematoma probably from a chain being whipped at him. Robbins shows Catherine his mouth, it proves he was doing meth. She prints him and discisovers that he is in fact Joseph Niagra, owner of the unclaimed bike.
All of the bikers are being processed for DNA and fingerprints and clothes in a long line at the station. One named Jackass is being a pain in the ass. Another’s hands are so greasy they can’t get a good print.
Brass tries to interview several bikers and they all stonewall. Except the bartender who, when told is the only bartender in South Vegas doesn’t carry protection, tells Brass he should start looking for a better class of bar.
Back in processing, a female named Tonya, the one that was Niagra’s girl, gets sassy with Wendy. Hodges tries to be gallant and demand an apology and the woman head butts him. As she’s dragged away Wendy notices it says “Property of Joey” on the back of her jacket.
Langston dusts Niagra’s bike and finds several prints. Catherine enters and he shows her an iPod he found with an AM/FM receiver. Catherine shows him the file on a dead hooker, a case to which Niagra was connected. He also apparently had sex with the dead body. (Eww.) Langston says this kind of thing is sometimes an initiation rite. He goes back to the bike and finds Niagra’s knife embedded in the seat. They think someone is trying to send them a message.
Under sherriff Eckley comes to Brass and informs him that Niagra was an undercover cop. Brass is surprised wondering what kind of cop is a tweaking necrophiliac.
Brass and Eckley go to inform the widow, and Brass is again surprised when he discovers it’s a woman named Rita with whom he had an affair. The widow breaks down and cries on Brass saying the undercover job had turned her husband into someone else. She had gone to the station the previous night, drunk, trying to speak to his captain to get him to pull her husband out. Eckley wonders what’s up but Brass doesn’t tell him.
Riley and Greg are figuring out the blood evidence on the floor of the bar. Some of the blood belongs to other bikers: Hooper and Jackass. They confirm the handprints near the blood pool are Niagra’s.
Catherine drags Tonya into interrogation. She’s a cop too and was part of the undercover operation. She defends the killing of the hooker as something Jack- Joey’s real name- had to do. Apparently to impress the man in charge, a dude named Scratch whose identity Tonya doesn’t know.
She explains what happened the previous night: they had gone on an all day ride, headed to the bar, there were a couple of fights, nothing unusual, and then the bartender got a call that changed the mood of the bar. (We see this unfold as she speaks). The bartender has someone move all the non-gang members and women outside so they can have a pow-wow in the bar. Outside she tried to claim she had to pee to get back in and was told to find a bush. She went over to the side of the bar and looked through a window and saw Joey being stabbed. She called 911. We can see a man over her shoulder. She sees him when she turns around and asks what he’s looking at. Brass asks if anyone saw her and she says she doesn’t think so.
She knows a big old shipment of cocaine is on its way and there’s going to be a biker war. When she’s told that they’re pulling her off the detail she begs them not to so Jack won’t have died in vein. She’s all tweaked out. She explains she has to be as part of her cover.
Back on the slab Robbins explains Niagra bled to death from the stab wounds which went into his heart and head. Robbins sent molds of the wounds upstairs. He and Langston banter about Caesar.
Nick works on matching the stab wounds to the knives they found including Niagra’s. He gets one match.
Wendy works on blood evidence from the knives. Nick matches that to two of the knives and none of the others. Langston says the police arrived one minute after the 911 call so the other knives couldn’t have gone very far.
Brass is on the phone with Eckley saying it’s not a conflict of interest for him to work on the case even though he knows Rita, the widow. He says he’ll recuse himself if it becomes one. He’s interrupted by a cop announcing that Rita is here to visit.
They have an awkward sitdown in which she wonders why he didn’t tell her he was a cop. She explains that she told him she was married. He says they don’t have to talk about that now. She wants to explain. He says she doesn’t have to. She tells him that she was calling his captain every day because Jack had gone over, he was stealing money from her, he was on drugs, he was hitting her, and had had Tonya’s name tatooeed on his chest. She wonders how she was supposed to be with him after that. Rita says she didn’t tell Brass the truth about her marriage because she was afraid. Brass says he handled it badly. In another piece of good timing, Brass is interrupted by a cop who says Tonya has been released. Tonya walks by and Rita locks evil eyes with her. Brass assures her they’re doing everything they can to find her husband’s killer.
Nick is back at the bar working the scene whene a biker rides up. It’s Langston. He’s decided to search the area from a motorcycle to help him see the roads like the fleeing bikers did. Nick is amused. He rides around the area. A line of bikers passes him by without incident although they clearly make him nervous. He scans the area and stops at an alley. He goes down and looks around and discovers a back pack full of knives.
Back at the lab he confirms to Catherine that all of the knives he found match wounds on the victim and the prints they lifted match five of the bikers they have in custody.
Catherine goes to see Archie who got the phone records from the bar. A call came in at 10:02 just like Tonya said. They trace where it came from and it came from their police department. They pull the surveillance and see that Rita made the call.
Eckley pull Rita in and tries to strong arm her into confessing that she dimed out Joey saying that he was so far gone she knew he would be killed and she would get the pension and the death benefit. Brass, now recused, watches through one-way glass. She denies this.
Eckley is pulled out. He later tells Brass that Tonya says the cocaine has showed up but she doesn’t know where yet, wherever Scratch said to drop it. So, says Brass they need to figure out who Scratch is. Meanwhile the other gang is cruising the streets says Eckley, looking for the drugs.
Back at the bar Nick and Sanders are pulling mannequins out of an SUV to prepare for a recreation. Tonya and some other women show up after having been released. Tonya gets in her car and it promptly blows up.
Nick examines scraps of the explosive and determines it was dynamite. He says he’ll ride back to the station with the body.
Inside the bar Catherine, Sanders, Hodges, Riley, and Langston recreate the attack with mannequin stand-ins for each of the attackers. Seems everyone got their licks in.
So, CSI is an iconic show. The original of a very successful franchise. Yesterday, an all new episode of CSI aired, this one called A Space Oddity. If you want to read spoilers, stay in this post under your responsibility.
The show opens with a cheesy take-off on “Star Trek” with the “captain” battling an alien and cozying up to a blond crewmate. We pull back and see that Hodges is watching an episode of “Astro Quest” on a little TV with a geeky guy who is rhapsodizing about-and trying to sell him- a prop on display at a sci-fi convention. He buys it. As he walks around the “Whatifitcon” with his “micro-probe” he meanders past stock sci-fi types in costume. He bumps into Wendy who’s rocking an “Astro Quest’ uniform. They realize they’re both “Quest”-ers. They’re moderately embarrassed but secretly psyched. Hodges start speaking a crazy space language.
They hear screaming and see a blond woman attending to a man lying on the replica of the “Astro-Quest” “bridge.” He has blood spilling out of his mouth and down the front of his shirt. Hodges calls Brass, who, comically, wants to know how Hodges got his cell phone number. Hodges explains that there’s a situation at the “Whatifitcon.” Brass is confused. Hodges says, in his best “Bones” McCoy impression, “He’s dead Jim.”
All the geeks are trying to take photos of the crime scene. The man’s name was Jonathan. Nick, Wendy, Hodges, and Philips examine the dude. Phillips calls time of death between midnight and 3 am. Nick realizes that means thousands of people have been by this booth in the intervening hours. Wendy and Hodges offer annoying advice so Nick tells them to beam themselves back to the lab so he can do his job.
Brass interviews the blond from before, Melinda. Turns out she was Jonathan’s business partner. They were trying to sell a pilot script, a remake of “Astro Quest.” Apparently there was interest from the CW for a series. Brass asks if Melinda had a financial stake in the project. She did. And, with Jonathan out of the picture, the rights to the remake revert to her.
On the slab Langston is taking off Jonathan’s blood-stained shirt. Hodges pokes his head in and points out that a redshirt usually died at the beginning of “Astro Quest.” Langston was apparently a fan too because he says he remembers and invites Hodges in as he takes pictures and examines the body: peri-mortem bruising, lacerations on nostrils. Hodges notices metallic trace in the cuts and pulls it out. Langston asks if Hodges and Wendy always go to “Whatifitcon” together. Hodges says it was a first.
Wendy is in her lab working when Hodges enters and observes. He goes into a fantasy where he and Wendy are re-enacting a scene from “Astro Quest” that ends with them kissing. Langston interrupts his reverie.
In another lab Greg and Archie are watching amateur video shot at the convention of Danson standing on the “bridge” introducing a sneak preview of his “Astro Quest” update to conventioneers. He expounds about his childhood watching the show. Wendy asks Archie to put the video on her screen. She calls Hodges over to watch. He secretly sniffs her as Danson talks about updating the show to not be so morally black and white but more realistic. He sweeps a hand to the screen where his, nuttily violent, pilot unspools. Danson himself is playing the new captain. The fans watching respond with disturbed whispers. And then, hilariously, Ron Moore – one of the main brains behind the superb update of “Battlestar Galactica”- playing a disgruntled fan stands up and yells “you suck” at Danson. The crowd piles on.
Back at the lab Greg turns to Archie and asks if he’s got it straight: one nerd takes a cheesy ’60s sci-fi show and updates it to be more realistic and the other nerds get angry and kill him? Archie says people don’t like it when you mess with their heroes.
Riley and Stokes examine the bridge looking for evidence. Stokes finds evidence of “geek love” on the command chair. Riley finds Danson’s laptop and DVD player. The DVD in the player is a video of disgruntled fans, dressed in “Astro Quest” costume and with their faces blurred out, saying they find Danson guilty of high treason and cartoonishly depict beheading Danson via guillotine.
Catherine is futzing with a camera when Hodges enters to pose a hypothetical: if two people in the lab were romantically involved would he have to report it to someone. Yes, she says, Eckley. Since the hypothetical couple are not supervisor/subordinate but do work the same shift, one would have to switch shifts. Catherine tells Hodges to tell the couple to go for it since life is too short. Wendy notices Hodge through the window, he smiles at her.
Greg is checking out an Internet gossip site on the “Whatifitcon” death. He clicks a link for the supplier of the site’s video and gets the site of one Dr. Penelope Russell – played by Kate Vernon aka Ellen Tigh/Cylon from “Battlestar Galactica” – a professor at WLVU.
Greg goes to see her and asks why she was at “Whatifitcon” taping the “Astro Quest Redux” presentation. She says she’s making a documentary on the “gestalt constructs of sci-fi mythicultures”? He asks her about the crowd’s angry repsonse to the pilot. She says Danson was a provocateur and she liked his boldness. She wonders if Eric thinks one of these angry chanting people they’re now watching on screen. He wonders if that’s what she thinks. She says to its fans “Astro Quest” was more than aTV show, it’s a religion. She called his redux the equivalent to Martin Luther’s protests against the Catholic church. He calls hyperbole, she points out the conflict in the Middle East.
Back on the slab Robbins is telling Langston thhe cause of death was cerebral hemmorhage.(Somebody whacked him real hard in the nose and drove the nasal frontal suture into his brain. We see this depicted inside the cranium.) Langston says they haven’t found the murder weapon. Robbins asks Phillips to sew the body up and Phillips retorts with a one liner from the show. He’s been doing it all week. Robbins wasn’t a fan. Langston asks about a contusion on the neck. Robbins theorizes a sleeper hold and tries it on Phillips, not so nicely. Robbins shows Langston that there was alcohol in the stomach contents as well as “Astro Quest’ food.
We cut to Nick questioning a bartender- made up like some Klingon-ian alien- at a “Whatifitcon” cantina. He recalls -and we see- Danson getting drunk at the bar and hitting on a girl dressed in an “AQ” uniform. (It’s Liza Weil, Paris from “The Gilmore Girls.”) Her friends came to her rescue and got in a fight with Danson. One of the fans, also in “AQ” garb explained that it was this kind of violence that was the problem with Danson’s pilot. The bartender applied the sleeper hold. Cutting back to the present with Nick he explains he’s not down with violence. Nick shows him photos of attendees and the bartender picks out the fighters.
Back at the lab Wendy is examining the weird metal thing Riley found on the bridge. She and Hodges explain to another tech that it’s a prop from the show, a collar that zaps disobedient wearers. Hodges goes to touch it and Wendy points out that he has no gloves on. Wendy leaves and he banters with the other tech about sci-fi, a category in which she includes “Mr. Ed.” He peers over at Wendy and goes into another “AQ” fantasy, one in which they’re wearing the zappy collars and Wendy is wearing a very skimpy outfit. It involves him explaining to her, as a confused alien/co-worker, what love is and how they can have it. Wendy gets zapped as he screams “no! Catherine said it would be okay!”
The other tech brings him back to the present with fingerprint hits from the DVD. They belong to two kids. Brass goes to talk to them. Unsurprisingly, they appear to hang out at the home of one of their long-suffering moms.
She takes Brass upstairs where she shows him into the guys pristine “AQ” recreation room, complete with handprint entry pad. They’re in costume.
Down at the station, Brass shows the geeks the still pictures from the DVD and he wonders if Danson caught them in the act of defiling his work and they had a fight. (We see an imagined fight between Danson and the geeks in which they accidentally kill him while defending themselves.) Not true, they say. They say they sent in their female friend, a Ms. Risa Parvis -the one Danson was hitting on- to do the dirty DVD deed. They call her unstable.
We cut to a vision of Risa returning to the faux spaceship and meeting up with the guys. She looks disheveled and says there were complications in the mission. They chew her out saying she better not have screwed up or she’ll be off the crew. She says there is no crew and that this isn’t a spaceship and she’s done playing their stupid games.
Back at the lab, Wendy tells Hodges the semen on the command chair is the victim’s and someone else’s. She invites him over for an “AQ” mini-marathon. He agrees and says he’ll spring for pizza if it’s not too much of a crowd. She says it will be just the two of them. He’s unnerved but giddy.
He starts to fantasize again. Wendy is in another skimpy costume belly dancing for Hodges and Archie in a casbah. Wendy comes in and tells him he’s on fire. He says his mind wandered. She says that’s been happening a lot. He essentially says it’s her fault. She says if he’s having crazy fantasies of her in a tinfoil bikini she’s glad, since that proves he’s not oblivious like everyone thinks, but that’s no reason to blame her for his screw-ups. They fight. They hotly agree to call off the date.
Risa is brought in by the bartender who says she was wandering around the convention looking strung out. He gives Nick and “AQ” DVD.
Nick interviews her. She seems wiped out. He says she knows about Danson harrassing her, her messing with the DVD, and the evidence of sex in the command chair. He says if Danson assaulted her and she fought back it was self-defense.
She says it wasn’t self-defense, that she liked his show and he must have sensed it. We cut to Danson catching her messing with the DVD and then manipulating her into having sex with him wearing the zappy collar on the command chair. She rhapsodizes about her pure impulses and raw instincts. He told her he was going to take her to Cabo.
Cut to Catherine and Riley looking at video from Danson’s laptop. Turns out he promised Cabo to a bunch of conventioneers he banged in that chair, including his business partner Melinda. Catherine opines that it’s good to be the commander.
Brass shows Melinda the pictures. She wonders what the point is. He says she didn’t tell him she was banging the dead guy and emptied out her 401k to fund his pilot. Brass shows her the pictures of the other women. She says she knew about it and they had an open relationship and that he was a complicated artist. That’s all that mattered to her. Brass calls it a nice speech. She gets up to leave and he notices the metal edge of her purse, which looks like it might match the triangular wound to Danson’s nose.
Riley and Langston look at the sex photos and they realize they’re all the shot from the exact same angle. They realize if they find the camera they’ll probably get a photo of their killer. They go to the set to search. They set up a laser beam to gauge the trajectory. They can’t find it.
Back in the lab Hodges glares at Wendy. He then looks at a piece of trace evidence and has a thought. He goes to her and says he thinks he’s got it. He explains to her, by miming something we saw earlier – the alien from the original “AQ” video looking into a telescope like thing- that it’s right out of the episode. She understands what he means.
They excitedly call Langston and explain that the device is in the helm and direct him where to find it. Langston uncovers it and hits the button that pops it up. They find the camera and a bloody fingerprint on the console. Wendy and Hodges hang up and smile at each other. They seem like they might kiss and then shake hands and compliment each other on a job well done. She walks away. Another tech tells Hodges to just tell her how he feels already.
Hodges goes into another fantasy where he laments to this other tech that he would never be able to give himself to her fully since he’s made a commitment to this lab. (The command chair is now in the lab.)
The bloody fingerprint belongs to Dr. Penelope. Brass says he knows she didn’t mean to kill him but she needs to tell the truth about what happened so he can help her. She explains Danson took her media semiotics course. She heard about his project and thought it would be good for his documentary, but then she saw his “AQ” redux and realized that he’d stolen all his update ideas from her snooty class. He didn’t ask for permission or even give her credit.
We see the scene play out where she gets mad at him when he claimed nobody owns ideas and mocks her pseudo-intellectual studies. This enraged her and she attacked him, scratching his face. She then pushed him hard from behind him and killed him by accident.
Back in the lab Nick, Riley, and Langston offer an “AQ” marathon to Wendy. She turns them down. So does Hodges. The trio walks away talking about the various episodes and Wendy and Hodges each look sad.
Wendy goes to a computer and surfs to an “AQ” site. She translates what Hodges said to her in the nutty space language earlier in the episode. “We were made for each oher.”
She goes into her own fantasy. This time she’s the sad alien, saying goodbye to the captain, who says the lab needs him. They go to kiss and then he’s beamed away.
So, CSI is an iconic show. The original of a very successful franchise. Yesterday, an all new episode of CSI aired, this one called The Descent of Man. If you want to read spoilers, stay in this post under your responsibility.
We see helmet cam footage of two skydivers from another diver’s point of view. He’s French. As his friends open their chutes his gets tangled and he struggles with it. We see his point of view of descent until he slams into a building cracking his camera, which is now upside down. A man runs in and checks to see if he’s alive, he is. His friends run in. A few minutes later – there is a timer in the left corner of the camera- paramedics come in and take off the helmet and take him away. The footage flickers as the helmet is placed on the floor.
Nearly an hour later the camera is still shooting as Riley and Nick show up. A man explains this is in fact a crime scene because he was in the French Foreign Legion with Pierre, the diver, and he was too experienced and careful to let something like this happen. Riley examines the helmet as Nick talks to the dude. They discover the camera.
Nick and Riley are questioning the other divers, both female. One explains how everything went right with the dive as usual, they’d done it hundreds of times, until the deployment of the chutes. The other is very emotional, rhapsodizing about the joys of diving. A dude in a battered car rolls up. It’s another Frenchman, Max, who is Pierre’s partner in the jump school. Turns out they’re actually Belgian and close friends. Max and the girls go to the hospital to be with Pierre.
Langston is watching vultures circle. He then goes to a spot where a male corpse is lying on its back and being eaten by the birds and insects. He’s dressed somewhat monklike. Langston notes details, such as footprints to and from the body, into his dictaphone.
Back on the slab Hodges and Langston discover a few things about the monk-type guy: he had water so he didn’t die of dehydration; he had snacked on pistachios; after cutting off his cossack they discover a huge tattoo of a man on both his torso and back. Over the front it reads “Holy Steven” over the back of the figure’s head. On his back it says “Spread the word. I am come” over the front of the figure’s body.
Nick photographs and examines the defective chute. Riley comes in with the grim news that essentially every bone in Pierre’s body is broken and he’s still in surgery. He tells her he’s been examining Pierre’s chute and identical one and discovered insane coincidences of equipment failure which are fishy indeed. Riley thought these guys were fanatical about checking their equipment. They’re thinking someone messed with his chute and he swabbed the handles to pick up any touch DNA.
Back on the slab Robbins is taking out the monk’s brain. It shows a hematoma which could be a cause of death. The skull shows blunt force trauma. Langston points out a person in the lotus position couldn’t have fallen backwards and hit themselves directly on the head. Brass calls with an ID. Turns out he was a street corner preacher named Mark. They go to a strip mall to check out an address. The sign on the window says The Church of the Holy George. But the word “George” is written on a piece of duct tape clearly obscuring the word “Steve.”
They enter and Fish from “Ally McBeal” is lighting candles and singing to himself, dressed in priestly robes. He’s George. They ask what happened to the church of Steve and he says Steve was only a “mouthpiece” for the Lord not the actualy second coming. They let him know the mouthpiece is dead. George isn’t surprised since he had a vision to this effect.
He explains that he and “the Steven” wandered in the desert for several days until the Steven told him to return to preach the word, bestowing upon Geroge his staff and then the Steven continued on alone. (We see this vision play out). He’s excited that he held his rod and staff. He knew that Steven would “transmogrify” i.e. die. Brass lays out the “gospel according to Jim.” Brass thinks George took the big ornate staff and whacked the Steven on the head with it so he could take over the church. (We see this vision play out also). George admits he “smote” him.
We open on more video of Pierre, this time upright, helmet-free, and happy. It’s the beginning of the helmet cam footage. He tested it out first and also shot the ladies. The more emotional one is all flirty and the other one seems annoyed by this. As Riley and Nick watch the footage from the actual jump Nick freezes one frame noting at the point they were all linking arms in freefall, either woman could have tampered with his chute.
Nick goes to interview them, separately. The teary one says they were one big happy family. Both women offer mouth swabs. The more levelheaded one -played by Charisma Carpenter- also says they all loved each other so much and refers to Pierre as her fiancee. The other one gets ticked off when she hears this. They start calling each other bitch and trash-talking each other. Nick advances the “you killed Pierre out of jealousy” theory and they laugh it off. He brings in, and swabs, Max who says the women could’ve conspired to kill him together calling them conniving, diseased whores.
Wendy enters Langstons’ office in the morgue. The fingerprints on the staff were all George or Steven’s but there is nothing – blood or prints- on any spot where he might’ve whacked him. They wonder why George confessed since there’s no proof he did it. Langston runs a video of the Holy Steve’s teaching about being supple of thought and pliant of deed via a story about unwanted whipped cream in his Starbucks coffee. Langston says the central tenets of Steve’s faith were based on “acquiescence.” Wendy thinks Ray thinks that George didn’t do it. Ray doesn’t, he think he fell under the power of the Steven.
Brass goes back to interrogate him about his confession of “smoting.” George admits he didn’t do it but that he was following a tenet of the Steven’s: “It’s better to be agreeable than right.” Brass points out that’s not religion, it’s marriage. George nuttily yes’s and no’s him until Brass asks for psych evaluation to which George says yes.
Later Catherine and Langston walk and talk that either George is crazy, crazy like a fox, or there was evidence at the scene that Langston missed. Catherine wonders if he just bumped his head. Langston is going to grab the psych eval. Sanders trots up and corrals Catherine into a “double 420.”
Along with Brass they roll up on a swanky mansion. There are two dead bodies, discovered by the wife Gretchen after a return from L.A. Gretchen is hysterical about her husband’s missing bodyguard. Two men are dead in chairs back by the pool. They own a tile company.
Sanders takes photos. A cop tells them robbery doesn’t seem to be the motive since there’s no sign of forced entry or robbery. David says they’ve been dead since the previous evening. Sanders notes whatever killed ‘em looks painful. Catherine says both of their necks are flushed which is a sign of a heart attack. They’re thinking poison and Sanders plans to take the cigars and drinks on the table to Tox.
Wendy informs Nick there was no other DNA besides Pierre’s on his chute.
Catherine calls Langston and asks when he’s getting back. He says he’s on his way until the young cop from Catherine’s crime scene collapses near him. He goes to help him. He had a coronary not unlike Catherine’s vics. She and Langston visit the cop- Andy- in the hospital and have him walk them through his response to the call. He says he arrived first, met the wife, went to the backyard, checked the vics for pulses, taped the scene off, and waited for the CSIs to show up. (We see this play out and he wasn’t wearing gloves when he checked for pulses.)
They discuss what all three men could’ve touched as they walk out and as they do Gretchen is wheeled in. Catherine calls Brass and tells him to quarantine the house since there may be a contact toxin involved.
We watch a tech swab and test the cigar. He finds Digitoxin. In small doses it’s good for folks with heart conditions but in extreme doses, like the victims got, it causes death.
Sanders and Catherine go back to the house with a team of techs in hazmat suits looking to find evidence of the stuff by spraying a solution on the area and then shining UV light on it.
Catherine and Hodges examine a satellite photo displaying the concentration of the toxins, which makes them think the house was targeted and the toxins were dumped from above. Sanders enters with a website showing an ultra-light type plane that could’ve gotten in and out low, quiet, and fast enough to have done the job. Catherine has an idea involving latitude and longitude. With help from McCarren airport they track down the flight path of the plane with some fancy satellite/air traffic control technology. They see where the plane put down and it’s at the same private airfield as Max and Pierre’s sky diving business. Catherine calls Nick.
Cops swarm out to the airstrip along with a hazmat team. They find the ultra-light plane. Riley and Nick spray it for evidence of Digitoxin. It’s there.
Max goes to visit Pierre in the hospital. Brass comes in. Max tells Brass he was told that Pierre will never walk or speak again. We pull back and see Pierre’s in bad shape hooked up to all kinds of contraptions. Brass leans in and asks if he can hear him. He talks back via a computer that reads his winks or some contact lens in his eye. Brass says that Max needs to talk to him about a toxin dump out of his hangar. Max is all I don’t know what you’re talking about. Brass says he thinks Pierre wants to talk. Pierre signals that he does and starts typing out words with his eyes saying it was night and Max called him on his cell phone and asked him to fly…
Then Max interrupts and explains that a bad man wanted him to fly him over the area, claiming he wanted to do aerial photography. Max tried to say no but then the man got mean and threatened Max’s family so he agreed to meet him but he was so nervous he got in a car accident. We see his explanation play out in a vision from the car accident. He called Pierre and asked him to do it, no questions asked, for the 5,000 dollars. Pierre busts out of a trailer in a cowboy hat, boots, and brief underwear to answer as the girls dance around in their skivvies inside. Pierre agrees to do what Max wants.
We then see Pierre pilot the plane over the men at gunpoint and the man holding the gun unleashes the digitoxin from a canister. The unsuspecting men wonder if it’s raining and then convulse and die. We cut back to the hospital and Max explaining that Pierre knew that he had done something wrong but Max told him to be quiet and just continue on with business as usual. Brass says this makes them accomplices. Max understands but says he had no idea what was going to happen. Brass asks Pierre if the bad man tampered with his chute. Pierre says he himself did it. Max theorizes it was because he couldn’t live with what he’d done. Pierre says that yes this was the reason. Of course he didn’t die. Max cries. Max gives up the names of the bad men, one of whom was obsessed with “North by Northwest.” They were hired by rival tile guys who were fighting over the dwindling share of the housing market. (We learn this via a news broadcast the CSIs are watching). They banter about Persia and Langston starts lecturing about Aeschylus. They rib him that they’ll put it on their reading list. He’s bummed none of them have read him. As they walk away he rhapsodizes about Aeschylus’ great power as a writer and starts talking about his death and has an epiphany.
We cut to Langston walking back to the scene of the Steven’s demise in the desert. He steps around the area as we hear him talking in voice over about Aeschylus leaving Athens for Sicily for solitary contemplation. He walks around the scene and finds a turtle shell. He has a vision of a vulture scooping up a turtle and then returning later to dump the shell- from a great height- on the Steven’s noggin killing him. The voice over has been Langston explaining to Catherine. She wonders if he’s going to put this in his report. He points out that birds of prey drop shelled objects on rocks to crack them open and get the meat and that the Steven’s bald dome probably looked like a rock. He tells her to Google it and that the DNA on the turtle shell matches.
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The Who get a break tonight as the credits run over a burning ring of fire, through which a man in Mexican wrestling mask jumps. People watch the match, drinking and carousing. One young blond woman seems overcome by drink or drug, dropping her glass and stumbling out. As she tries to flag down cars for help she sees a man in a wrestling mask and foolishly flees down some steps and under a spooky underpass instead of staying on the street in full view of traffic. The man follows her. She stumbles and runs and falls. The man grabs her by the neck and kills her.
Later, in the rain, the CSI’s – Catherine, Langston, and Brass- examine the scene. Ray recognizes her as Sylvia, one of his former criminology students at WLVU.
We flash back to 4 months ago when Langston was meeting with Sylvia in a diner to tell her he’s becoming a CSI. He’s her thesis advisor but he’s passing her off to another professor and thinks she’ll do well. He says if she needs him all she has to do is call. She says she will.
Back in the present Langston takes photo of Sylvia on the slab. Catherine says there’s no sign of sexual trauma. Langston notices she’s holding a small scrap of leather in her hand. Hodges and Wendy try to ID it: boot, purse, glove, jacket, very small cow.
Cause of death was a broken neck/spinal cord according to Robbins. He’s going to run a tox screen. Langston says it will come back negative since Sylvia wasn’t a party girl.
CSI is a classic Police Show already. Yesterday an All new episode of CSI aired. This one called “No way out”.
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